Dear Mr. Michael R. Burch, I have spent some time reading your arguments and thinking about what appears to be a rather unusual relationship you have with Christianity, Christ, and the question of God. I am not entirely sure where your line in the sand is. Is your disagreement really with Christ, or is it…
How far have you strayed from Home? www.koasinag.com I myself have the gunning ability to “loose the plot” and stray from my purpose – most of the time – all the time. It seems that this “waywardness” is just hot-wired into us; this desire to destroy our own lives is like the yin and yang…
Why Jesus Warns Us to Be Alert for His Second Coming June 13, 2023 by: John Piper Like a Sudden Trap for the Dissipated Soul If you go to sleep spiritually, you will not be awake to discern the signs of his nearness. [This] is confirmed by the way Jesus speaks of the wise manager…
Practically, How Do We Abide in Jesus? August 04, 2023 by: John Piper A Transaction with Jesus Jesus’s commands are for a lifetime. He does not command a once-for-all decision to repent or come or believe or love or listen. Rather he commands that we go on repenting, coming, believing, loving, and listening. The transformation…
Why Did God’s Beautiful Plan of Redemption Involve Something So Ugly? August 01, 2023 by: Philip Graham Ryken That Old, Ugly Cross At the center of our beauty-loving God’s perfect plan for making us beautiful is something so grotesque and so offensive that people cannot even bear to look: the God-damnable death that Jesus died…